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My wife started a family tradition when the kids were quite young. Each New Years Eve, we would sit together, and jot down on our respective pieces of paper our personal goals -resolutions if you will- that we had for the coming year. Twelve months later we would repeat the process with the added amusement of reading what we had written the previous New Years Eve. The cramped jar has become a testament to my personal shortcomings, as a review... View Article

The Bank of Canada lowered the prime lending rate this past week, in a move that garnered very little attention in the media. For the better part of a generation, interest rates have been low, so a move from almost zero, to a little closer to zero raises few eyebrows. As my livelihood is closely and visibly tied to people’s willingness to spend borrowed money, I notice these things. It is easy to take cheap money for granted, but it... View Article

Sport, in many ways mimics life. The harder you train for your sport, the better you get. The better you get, the higher level you achieve amongst your peers. The better you are able to combine your talents with those of your peers, the more success your team will achieve. It is not difficult to correlate sport to the working world, and thus sport has long been a good teaching tool for children. The lessons learned on the playing field... View Article

Access to the knowledge of others has always been one of the my favourite aspects of my job. After all, if you subscribe to the belief that everyone knows something that you don’t, the benefit of working with other people willing to share their knowledge and experiences is a tremendous advantage. It is, or at least, ought to be an advantage enjoyed by larger offices. If on the other hand, you find yourself working within a large group unwilling to... View Article

Much has been written recently about the future of organized real estate, and rest assured we are only seeing and hearing the beginning. If committee hours were billable hours, a fortune could be earned or, depending upon your view- wasted, trying to navigate an inevitable course of events which will largely be governed by changes in technology. As our industry evolves from one built solely upon the premise of gathering and controlling information to one that acknowledges information is more... View Article

If you have an email address, you will be the recipient of unwanted solicitations. These emails, while often masked as something else, have a common end game in mind – your money. Some are direct. The number of former members of the Nigerian government needing my assistance to cash a big inheritance cheque never ceases to amaze me. If the email starts out “dearest trusted honourable Mr. Jeffrey”, and proceeds to ask for my council, I’m pretty... View Article

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